58 ANDKENIt».K. 



hliiiit curved tooth, widest in tlic middle, with the margin rounded ; 

 beneath obscurely rufo-piceous, the basal segment raised and having 

 a central longitudinal keel. 



Ilah. Burmah. 



2. Ctenoplectra terminalis. 



Female. Length 4 linos. — Head and tliorax Idack ; abdomen metallic 

 blue, the apex IVrruginous, and clothed with fulvous pubescence. 

 The face and cheeks with whitish pubescence ; the antennte ferru- 

 ginous, the flagcllum fuscous above ; the head strongly jmnctured, 

 the clypcus and labruni coarsely so. Thorax globose, closely and 

 finelv* punctured above: the sides of the metathorax with whitish 

 pubescence ; wings hyaline, with dark-brown nervures ; legs ob- 

 scurely rufo-piceous, their pubescence black ; the posterior tibia3 

 and basal joint of the tarsi with a thick scopa of black pubescence. 

 Abdomen smooth and shining ; the first segment with a few scat- 

 tered punctures at the base ; the second segment with a transverse 

 waved row of punctures in the middle ; the two following segments 

 punctured at their base, the fifth entirely punctured and fnnged 

 with fulvous pubescence ; beneath, the fourth and following seg- 

 ments fringed with fiJvous pubescence. 



Hah. Natal. 



MEGACILISSA, Smith. 



1. Megacilissa vestita. 



Male. Length G| lines. — Black and densely pubescent. The face 

 and cheeks have a yellowish-white pubescence, that on the vertex 

 is fuscous. The thorax clothed with short, dense, fidvous pubes- 

 cence ; the abdomen covered with the same above ; on the meta- 

 thorax the pubescence is longer and paler ; on the entire body 

 beneath the pubescence is white, faintly tinged with yellow : at 

 the sides of the abdomen above the apical margins of the segments 

 are fringed with white, only visible when viewed sideways ; the 

 tibiae and tarsi ferruginous ; wings hyaline, the nervures black. 



Hah. Peru. 



2. Megacilissa tenuimarginata. 



Male. Length Sg lines. — Black ; the face, thorax above, and the 

 first segment of the abdomen densely clothed with rich fulvous 

 pubescence ; the clj^ijeus and scape of the antennas yellow. The 

 pubescence on the sides of the thorax, beneath, and on the legs 

 fulvous, but paler than that on the disk ; the legs ferruginous, the 

 posterior pair dark rufo-piceous and with fuscous pubescence out- 

 side, that on the tarsi within bright ferruginous : wings fulvo- 



